Chapter 52: Untitled
The second company, which had killed and injured dozens of people, withdrew to the city to rest, and after Sun Liansheng, who was thunderous, held his bloodstained face and jumped at the city gate, he had to pull the garrison out of the city and enter the defensive position left by the second company under the strong persuasion of Tian Guang. Sun Liansheng is arrogant, Sun Liansheng is domineering, but he is not useless, it is one thing to have a personal enmity with Tang Cheng, and the safety of Macheng is another, if something happens to Macheng, he, the head of the Macheng garrison regiment, will be done.
The Second Company did not have a barracks in the city, so Tang Cheng had to retreat into the city to recuperate, and while using the radio to contact the 88th Division, he sent people to find doctors to treat the wounded soldiers. "Fight and fight, we are people from the 88th Division, as long as Sun Liansheng is not dead, I don't believe that their Sun family can do anything to me?" Tang Cheng shot and beat Sun Liansheng, although Niu Laogui and the others didn't say it, the worry in their eyes was obvious, and Tang Cheng had to comfort Niu Laogui and them in his busy time.
After receiving the telegram from Tangcheng, the reply from the 88th Division came quickly, and the 88th Division analyzed the intelligence they obtained, and the Japanese troops who appeared in Macheng should have come from Huoshan. After Huoshan fell to the Japanese army on August 29, the Japanese army in the south has been trying to open the passage to Hankou, Fujinshan is only one of the Japanese troops in the south, and the other way the Japanese army chooses the direction is Macheng. The 88th Division arranged the second company in Macheng, originally thinking that the second company had just been rebuilt, and it would be convenient to stay in the rear for training, but they did not expect that the second company would make new achievements in Macheng, not to mention those defeated bandits, even the two Japanese soldiers captured alive were a great achievement.
"The division headquarters asked us to send the prisoners to Wuhan, and said that we could get some ammunition supplies from Wuhan and come back." It was good news that they could receive provisions, but the selection of prisoners to take to Wuhan was a problem. The truck captured from the Japanese army was still in Macheng, and Tang Cheng had the heart to personally escort the prisoners to Wuhan, and at the same time receive supplies, he could also go to see them at the same time. But he was the commander of the second company, and now was not a good time to leave the second company and go to Wuhan, so Tang Cheng had to arrange for the company's deputy Niu Lao Gui to personally take people to escort the two Japanese soldiers to Wuhan in a carriage.
"The people of the military commander will pick you up in Wuhan, just hand them over, don't say anything superfluous, come back immediately after taking the supplies, I still have a lot of things waiting for you." Niu Laogui is not a person who likes to procrastinate, in line with the idea of not further ado, the anxious Niu Laogui casually took a few people to drive two carriages to Wuhan. The 88th Division didn't say why it was going to hand over the captured prisoners to the military commander, and Tang Cheng didn't have the heart to inquire, all he had in mind was the ammunition and supplies promised by the 88th Division.
Reporting the battle to the 88th Division was just a daily report in Tang Cheng's view, and when Liu Goat was in Mengcheng, all major and minor matters were reported to the Fifth War Zone. Tang Cheng didn't know that his battle report had caused quite a stir in the 88th Division, and he did not hesitate to make enemies with the Sun family and agreed to rebuild the second company, Zhong Bin They just asked for an explanation of the 1st Battalion of the 524th Regiment, and when Xie Jinyuan and their more than 400 people were uncertain about their life and death, they could leave a thought in their hearts.
No one expected that Tang Cheng, the acting company commander who was only 19 years old, would make an extraordinary move, and he would actually fight two battles and two wins in Macheng, not only killing more than 700 bandits, but also killing and capturing a squad of Japanese soldiers alive. "What's the matter, I'll just say that this kid in Tang Cheng is not bad, he played well." Tian Guangquan came to Zhong Bin and said good things for Tang Cheng, and the face of asking for merit and reward for himself with a tian face made Zhong Bin cry and laugh, but Tian Guangquan was right, Tang Cheng did play well in Macheng.
"You said that this kid has never gone to a military school, nor has he ever followed a teacher seriously, where did he learn all the ways of fighting?" Tang Cheng's age has always been a hard injury, and when Tang Cheng was mentioned, Zhong Bin naturally thought of Tang Cheng's age. 19-year-old lieutenant, this can already be regarded as an outlier in the combat units of the national army, if Tang Cheng is the adjutant or confidential secretary of a certain bigwig, it is nothing, but he is now indeed the military commander of an infantry company of the 88th Division, and no one may believe this matter.
Tian Guangquan pouted at Zhong Bin without missing a trace, "Isn't that Xie Bo and Liu Goat, Xie Bo is from Huangpu, so he can still arrange troops without moving." Liu Goat is another soldier, that son is a well-known guy in the 88th Division, and he has fought two battles in Shanghai and Nanjing with such a person, even a fool can learn a trick and a half. Tian Guangquan had only seen Tang Cheng once, and he didn't know much about Tang Cheng, so he naturally attributed all the credit to Xie Bo and Liu Goat.
Zhong Bin seems to be reasonable when he thinks about it, Xie Bo is the most capable of fighting among the company commanders of the 88th Division, plus a famous Liu goat, it is not surprising to teach a demon like Tang Cheng. "It's a pity that although Tang Cheng has won two games in a row, they themselves have suffered thirty percent casualties, or I will transfer him to Fujin Mountain. What's the point of fighting bandits, or a big scene like Fujin Mountain can train people, after a few battles, as long as half of the people in his second company can be left, this company will be considered alive. ”
Tian Guang knew that Zhong Bin said this for the good of the second company, and several German armor divisions of the national army were now in an embarrassing situation, Shanghai and Nanjing had caused them to lose a large number of manpower, and the filling of too many supplementary soldiers had seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the German armor division. Although they still carry the name of the descendant of the German armor division, in fact, their current combat effectiveness is so low that it is on a par with the ordinary national army troops, and the second company of Tang Cheng was of course transferred to Fujin Mountain not to use them as cannon fodder, but to train them into elite soldiers in the shortest possible time.
"Huoshan has returned to the Japanese army, and now that Tangcheng is withdrawn from Macheng, with the troublemaker of the Sun family, I'm afraid Macheng will not be able to hold it." Tian Guangquan's words made Zhong Bin frown, he knew that what Tian Guangquan said about the troublemaker was Sun Liansheng. In order to protect Tangcheng, the 88th Division had to help Sun Shoucheng talk about Sun Liansheng's appointment as the head of the Macheng garrison regiment, thinking that it was just a small local garrison regiment, but he didn't expect Sun Liansheng to take an infantry company from the 36th Division when he went to Macheng.
It would have been okay if Sun Liansheng only had a group of rabble in his hands, but now he not only had a garrison regiment in his hands, but also an infantry company as a backing, in comparison, Tang Cheng, who had only 140 people, would have the upper hand. The asymmetry of forces is likely to breed Sun Liansheng's dominance, if Sun Liansheng and Tang Cheng have a conflict in Macheng, without the Japanese army to attack, the confrontation between them alone can make Macheng upside down.
wants to transfer out of Tangcheng, but he is afraid that Macheng will lose, and if he does not transfer out of Tangcheng, and he is afraid that he and Sun Liansheng will have a conflict, and now Zhong Bin has fallen into a dilemma. "Let's wait and see, if Tang Cheng is really like you said, this kid will avoid his edge and won't rush to conflict with that kid from the Sun family." is not so much answering Tian Guangquan's question, but rather saying that Zhong Bin's idea is perfunctory. As the old saying goes, when two tigers fight, one must be injured, and when Zhong Bin and Tian Guangquan were discussing countermeasures, Sun Liansheng, who was violently beaten by Tang Cheng in public, had already informed Sun Shoucheng of the matter.
"Evil obstacle, it's really an uneasy evil obstacle, I told him not to provoke that Tang Cheng, but he didn't listen to persuasion, now it's okay, he was blocked at the city gate and beaten, what can I do, now is the time when the war is critical, can I still send someone to arrest Tang Cheng again?" Sun Shoucheng, who received the news, had a cold face, paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, and several combat staff officers of the 36th Division who were close to him were persuading Sun Shoucheng in anger.
The defense line of the Fujin Mountain Battle was very long, and Song Xilian lined up the 36th Division in the middle of the defense line, which was the location where the Japanese army hit the attack, and after the Japanese army forcibly crossed the Shi River, it mobilized heavy troops and aircraft to attack the defense line of the 36th Division. The war is so unsmooth, where does Sun Shoucheng still have the heart to deal with Sun Liansheng's bullshit chores, but Sun Liansheng's crying telegram by telegram, Sun Shoucheng, as an uncle, can't ignore it, even a small acting company commander has ridden to the head of the Sun family, how can the people of the Sun family stay in the 71st Army in the future.
"Dahe, you go to Macheng, Liansheng is a brainless, Tian Guang can't count on it, you go to help Liansheng, I don't worry if you go." After thinking about it left and right, Sun Shoucheng still sent his cronies to Macheng. Although Wang Dahe is only a staff member of the Sun family, this person is quite scheming, and he has many years of experience in the army, so it is not difficult to deal with the acting company commander.
Tang Cheng, who was far away in Macheng, didn't know about it, and he didn't know that he just beat Sun Liansheng for a beating, which would attract the resentment of the Sun family. Therefore, in the telegram he sent to the 88th Division, there was only a battle report, but there was no mention of the violent beating of Sun Liansheng, if he knew that the Sun family would continue to send people to Macheng to deal with him, Tang Cheng would definitely report his violent beating of Sun Liansheng to the 88th Division.
The back of the big tree is good for the shade, and now the 88th Division is the back of his Tang City, whether it is to rebuild the second company or to protect himself, Tang Cheng is inseparable from the support of the 88th Division. The second company, which suffered three percent casualties, was temporarily stationed in the Huang family compound, and the disbandment of the Huang family's subordinates took them away, and the spacious Huang family compound became an empty mansion, which happened to be used by Tang Cheng as the military camp of the second company.
"Pick guns, count ammunition and loot." The courtyard of the Huang family, where the gate was closed, was very lively, the aroma of horse meat stew in the cauldron was overflowing, and dozens of shirtless soldiers of the second company were taken by the old northeast to count the spoils. All the bandits captured were handed over to the garrison regiment for disposal, Tang Cheng, who had nothing to do, was busy counting his results, and there were people in the county town who could be replenished into the second company, and all he lacked now was weapons and ammunition.